Imaginative orchestrations and 'that voice' made for a collaboration of emotional depth.
Imaginative orchestrations and"that voice" made for a collaboration of emotional depth.Your eyes meet across a crowded room. She shares some funny yarns and betrays an inner vulnerability. And in a few minutes, you feel as if she’s let you into her world.Tuesday night, the crowded room was a sold-out Verizon Hall, yet Audra McDonald was able to instantly place 2,500 listeners in her thrall. It helps that she has the tools of not only a singer, but also a stage and TV actress.
The show’s material is basically the Great American Songbook set in a series of imaginatively orchestrated arrangements. Saturated strings had an exuberant Hollywood gloss in an candy-sweet version of “The Carousel Waltz” from Richard Rodgers’. Elizabeth Starr Masoudnia’s English horn solo voice in Gershwin’s “Summertime” was the soul of sincerity.
Her voice grew light and trembly — operetta-like — in “I Could Have Danced All Night,” and downright operatic in “Summertime,” leaving aside the microphone and letting her voice fill the hall naturally.
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